viii, 418 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-408) and index

Introduction -- Hell, purgatory, and paradise -- Materialism and immortality: a survey of negation -- Plurality of personal lives -- The doctrine of eternal recurrence -- Positivistic immortality -- The Buddhist doctrine of karma -- The problem of immortality in modern theology: a contemporary survey of affirmation -- Ethical arguments for immortality -- The destiny of the self in recent British idealism -- Pessimism and immortality -- Value, personality, and destiny

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